Penn State Viola Studio
  • About Us
  • Events
  • Forum
  • Viola Society
  • Viola Ensemble
  • Gallery
  • Info for Prospective Students
  • Current Students
  • Resources
  • Contact
  • Tim Deighton

Guest Master Class: Roger Tapping

4/23/2021

 
4:00 p.m. Friday April 23rd
Zoom

Master Class Program and Participants
 
 
Fantasie for Four Violas                                                                                     York Bowen
                                                                                                                                 (1884-1961)
 
Taylor Shea
Sam Rothermel
Andrea Alvarado
Sarah Terning
 
 
Sonate for Viola and Piano, Op. 25, No. 4 (1922)                                                 Paul Hindemith
                                                                                                                                 (1895-1963)
Mvt. 3  Finale, lebhafte Viertel
 
Taylor Shea, viola
Seulki Yoo, piano

Picture
Roger Tapping joined the Juilliard Quartet and Juilliard’s viola faculty in 2013. Previously, he had moved from London to the U.S. in 1995 to join the Takács Quartet. During his decade with them, their career included many Beethoven and Bartók cycles in major cities all over the world. Their Decca/London recordings, including the complete quartets of Bartók and Beethoven, placed them in Gramophone magazine’s Hall of Fame and won three Gramophone Awards, a Grammy and three more Grammy nominations, among many other awards. Tapping taught regularly at the Aspen Festival, the Taos Quartet School, and London’s Guildhall School of Music.
In recent years he has been on the viola faculty of the New England Conservatory, where he also directed the Chamber Music program. He also taught at the Longy School in Cambridge and the Boston Conservatory. In the summers he has served on the faculties of Itzhak Perlman’s Chamber Music Workshop, the Tanglewood String Quartet Seminar and Yellow Barn, and he has given viola master classes at Banff. He has also given viola and chamber music master classes at other festivals and conservatories in the U.S. and Canada.
Born in England, Tapping played in a number of London’s leading chamber ensembles, making several highly acclaimed albums, before joining Britain’s longest established quartet, the Allegri. He taught at London’s Royal Academy of Music, was principal viola of the London Mozart Players, a member of the English Chamber Orchestra and a founding member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. He has performed frequently as a guest with many distinguished quartets from the U.S. and Europe, and he was a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society.
His teachers were Margaret Major and Bruno Giuranna and he participated in master classes with William Primrose. He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge. Tapping is a member of the Order of the Knight Cross of the Hungarian Republic, has an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Nottingham, and is a Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music in London.

Comments are closed.

    Categories

    All
    Chamber Music
    Faculty
    Graduate
    Guest Artist
    Master Class
    Recital
    Undergraduate
    Video
    Viola Ensemble

    Archives

    April 2025
    March 2025
    February 2025
    November 2024
    October 2024
    April 2024
    March 2024
    February 2024
    October 2023
    April 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    November 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    November 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    December 2020
    October 2020
    February 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    May 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    January 2014
    November 2013
    September 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    November 2012
    October 2012

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.